New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-11-06
NETWORK LIFE.
THE BOY ABOUT TOWN.
HIS EXPERIENCE WITH THE MARRIED DELLE-

| HIS EXPERIENCE WITH THE MARRIED BELLE-A
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There are as many kinds of Boys about town IA there
are varieties of golden rod They are as plentiful now
i'm NewYork as the walking sticks OF Notairo were III
Paris sixty years ago There is the fat Boy about town.
who lunches daily at Dels and the thin one, whose legs
are no thicker than his who lunches OH Ms iroS
There Is the Boy about town WHO Is rs DISK Us rsor
Gus In shon in Boys will allow; AMI the angii hoy VINO
shows an inclination drag in his feet his cane ana MS
conversation There Is the butterfly Boy VINO mas no
bright particular star but loves the whole pan
et,rv systern that g. when the system moves in tho
npprr air currents-the Boy who can say Win that
charming heroine of felton, It's not the FOX care TOT
It's the chase and there is the Boy VINO loves Win
nineteenth century Ncw-Yo frenzy the gaycst and
precs married belle OF the season Then there Is the
cold cynical Boy, who disbeieves In women as Swallow
callow things made 10 suckle fools AMI chronicle
small beer Ii would have to be very small Deer "hcro
the Boy was concerned. large beer goes 10 Ms d
And there his charming antithcss inc s"thear'"'
Bov who haunts o'clock teas plays the guitar and
SMOKES Russian cigarettes. There are stupid Boys
about and clever ones; ugly ones ana handsome
ones rch ones ana poor In fact they nave nut
one point I'm according to their own accounts
thcv are all terribly wicked They have not kept them
selves unspottci from the world; indeed close contact
with it seems 10 have polSadottcd them They break
hearts and banks with equal ease, ana me lrcd"l'S
which they TO each other over black coce ana
cigarettes are particularly lurid They ar3 mia
cpltomcs OF those vOung-yery young-GrcoK GOus'
whom burning Ouida loved and sung
Tho Boy about town ceases To- exist after the age or
twenty three. Some pass this "pons a'nor'lm
between youth and manhood without being Boys about
town AT al. Boys pity them poor creatures, who
have never known the real spice OF life. The Boys
themselves regard IN" only successful when
thoroughly spicy-but then. mans spice Is another
mans mustard water.
The place To the real genuine Coy Is all his glory
IA Fifth Avenue OF fine afternoon Arrayed III all the
panoply OF his proud clothes with beautiful. shining
boots. pointed pins on his neat little feet with
his elbows bowed outward mt the correct
angle. with his hair curlei Ike the
Assyrlan monarch's his brow. and orange gloves on
hi hands he swings mp tho avenue exhibiting the latest
Importation in walks This unduating glide. reaching
lis highest development in slight dip In the knees ami
droop in the shoulders Is the Boys greatest achieve
mcnt In fact It IA the trademark OF Boys about town.
Let youth Of tender bc dressed In the most ultra
fashion, let his mstache be fainter than the first nnsh
OF dawn let him have n whole menagcrc OF hcrallic
fana gambollng the top OF is note paper. let MN
have the h-hest glance to be found outside the inny
tribe let him give the grin " With the spasmodic sud
dcnnrs- OF fash OF lghtnng-but II he doesn't walk
just that way he IA hollow sham wrctched copy OF
that reulgent radiant. Incompatible being tho real
Boy about town.